Explore Quotes on Failing

I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder.

It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.

Some technologies don't pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. ... I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here.

Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scary and hard but pays off in the long run... Let yourself fail... And pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?

If you're going to fail...FAIL FORWARD

He will always know as we know now that in the heat of battle he did not fail when mateship and duty called.

Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.

People who wait for a magic wand fail to see that they ARE the magic wand.

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

The Muslims have got Islam as a legacy, hence they fail to recognize its value

Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail._x000D__x000D_They cannot give their entire attention to it.

Don't sugar-coat results. Don't make yourself look good when your strategy fails. Don't make others look good if their strategy failed.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human failings. They are the only consistent art in the United States which constantly remind us of our limitations while encouraging us to see how far we can actually go. When understood in their more profound implication, they are a corrective, an attempt to draw a line upon man's own limitless assertion.

There is only one kind of discipline, and that is the perfect discipline. As a leader, you must enforce and maintain that discipline; otherwise, you will fail at your job.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker